Support for sustainable eco-tourism in Puerto Princesa Underground River - Project 2016-2017

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Created: Sunday, 20 November 2016 17:26

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The Puerto Princesa Underground River is one of the largest subterranean estuaries of the world, where tides propagates over 5 km inside. The cave, consisting of over 30 km of giant galleries, hosts an extremely complex ecosystem based on the huge colonies of bats and swallows. Its natural singularity was recognized as World Heritage by UNESCO since 1999, while the first part of its navigable branch was transformed into a show cave since 1982.  A peculiarity of this cave is that, even been visited by more than 300.000 people/year, no fixed structures at all have been installed inside PPUR, which therefore should be still considered a totally pristine cave.

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The forty years of the Rolex Award for Enterprise: caving and exploring on the front line

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Created: Thursday, 17 November 2016 11:38

Published: Thursday, 17 November 2016 11:38

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Ended in the evening of November 15 the event organized by Rolex in Los Angeles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rolex Award for Enterprise. Since 1976, Rolex has honored exceptional people who possess the conviction and ideas required to significantly contribute to improving the world. Over the years this program has received more than 33,000 applications from 190 countries around the world and awards the prize to 140 innovators, from 24 to 74 years of age.

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The video of the expedition 2016 to Tyndall Glacier

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Created: Monday, 07 November 2016 14:55

Published: Monday, 07 November 2016 14:55

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The Martino Frova video on March expedition on Tyndall Glacier (Chile).

After 16 years La Venta is back on Tyndall to understand how the global warming has modified this glacier.

With new technologies and many surprises!

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Cenote 2016

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Created: Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:13

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Also this year we had a 4 day camp in the heart of the Natural Park of Fanes Senes Braies to continue with the monitoring and research into the abyss Cenote, a cave that inside hides a real paleoclimatic archive of the Dolomites.

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Insieme per Daniel

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Created: Friday, 14 October 2016 10:22

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Daniel, un ragazzo come noi, uno speleologo, un padre, dopo una vita dinamica, sportiva e attiva improvvisamente e misteriosamente si è ammalto di Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica (SLA), diagnosticata nel marzo 2015.
Daniel è stato anche varie volte con noi in spedizione.
E' passato solo un anno e mezzo e Daniel ora non si muove più e parla a stento. Ora c'è la possibilità di provare una nuova cura ma purtroppo costosa e insostenibile per lui che non lavora più.
Aiutiamo Daniel ad affrontare le spese per una vita dignitosa e per curarsi con le cellule staminali.
Fai una donazione sul conto corrente bancario intestato a:
Daniel Paharnicu
Banca Intesa
IBAN: IT31S0306905128100000001879
Codice Swift: BCITIT31840
Causale: "Donazione per le cure di Daniel Paharnicu, contro la SLA".

Parasites and parasitized

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Created: Tuesday, 06 September 2016 08:50

Published: Tuesday, 06 September 2016 08:54

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Sometimes, back from expeditions, we feel inquiries about animals present in those areas. In particular of those considered dangerous (jaguars, snakes, crocodiles...). Sure encounters with these animals will take place. And certainly they are often dangerous encounters.

But often are animals so small as not to be taken into account that makes expeditions problematic. One of them, for sure, is the Tunga Penetrans or Nigua, the smallest existing flea (for more information refer to the wikipedia page).

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